The Siren Board

Back in the mid 1980's most all of our Los Angeles City & County
sirens went silent , with all the usual excuses .No money to maintain
they are useless and parts hard to get & we, citys, have to pay Telco....
Pacific Bell & then General Telephone
fees for Leased control Lines . I will admit L.A. County Sirens were radio
controled but all the rest as far as I know were Leased Line.
So my Topic today , look how the county waste your Tax money this
would Pay for how many new or used C. D. War and Tsunami warning
Sirens Bet you might have some left over cash for sirens in
the San Fernando Valley as well , but for now like life in the depression
era 1930's who got even a dime [ for C.D. ] because it was wasted .

Read on ...........

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 4108.story

Spare me. Leased lines were the available technology before radio control was commonplace, so they were using what everybody else used. Where I grew up the sirens were all leased line until a switchover to radio.

Please note....................
that my topic is not to criticize or put down on
Leased Line Siren Systems.
Its to put down on Los Angeles County employees who ought to be fired or at least given a pay cut for not
doing the simple task of calling the phone co to disconnect Thousands
of unused Telephones in CLOSED Vacated county buildings. IE: they just keep paying the phone bill.

Please read the entire LA times story given in my
origional post on this topic.

Bet the homeless and Gang member types love it to call Mexico when
the vacent office buildings get broken in to, its NOT uncommon.

Actually somebody is issing a business opportunity.

There are companies who will offer a municipality or school district a utility audit in exchange for 50% of the first year of savings. Since noone at any government agency or school district has any incentive to save a tax dollar, you often make the sale by humiliating the customer with cooperation from the media.

The utility has no incentive to lower a customer's bill, so someone with a little incentive can come up with a lot of savings. There are large numbers of deadended phone lines being paid for across the country.

Franz? wrote:Actually somebody is issing a business opportunity.

There are companies who will offer a municipality or school district a utility audit in exchange for 50% of the first year of savings. Since noone at any government agency or school district has any incentive to save a tax dollar, you often make the sale by humiliating the customer with cooperation from the media.

The utility has no incentive to lower a customer's bill, so someone with a little incentive can come up with a lot of savings. There are large numbers of deadended phone lines being paid for across the country.

I'm sure it's a huge number. Governments are like kids: if nothing is said about something, it never happened. Adults do the same thing.